Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

A recent study conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has uncovered the earliest known evidence of ...

The oldest signs of lead pollution are found in the Aegean Sea region of Greece, dating back to ancient times, a new study ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

In 2017, scientists discovered amber in a sediment core from the Antarctic, and analysis since has revealed a startling truth ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...